Leon Panetta: “Come up with the decisions that should be made, frankly, on the two-thirds of the budget that is still yet to be…”

That’s too long, and it should have been brought back sooner.

And ... we’re going to have to respond. And right now, because our missile systems and our supply of weapons being down, this is a vulnerable period for the United States.

Autocrats that once operated in their own spheres of influence have now joined together in an axis of mutual support and aggression.

It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.